Howdy, folks. I'm in need of a recommendation for a laser printer that can handle an extraordinarily high volume of packing slip printing every single day. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good workhorse? It would need to be roughly the same size as an HP LaserJet, and be able to handle a few thousand printouts a day without TOO much fail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I bought a brother HL-2270DW for 85 bucks last year. Since then, I bought 2 more because the thing has been pretty rock solid and I can get toner cartridges online for less than 20 bucks.

I have one in my home office, and two went to work. I don't know if they are "rock solid" under heavier use, but I have printed several 500 page reports without a hitch. For 80 bucks, I figure it is easily replaceable.

I frequently receive lemons when doing installs, specifically the 4250 series. Don't get me wrong, Some Xerox printers are ok but from my experience most suck. The firmware is flakey and support is terrible (You have to be Xerox certified before they even talk to you)

This is probably much more information than you require, but here goes...your requirements are pretty tough. Most printers are designed for an office environment, those that are designed for industrial applications cost many thousands of dollars. The Lexmark's actually stand up pretty well in these types of environments. The e360 that someone mentioned before is a good choice for dirty environments because the design of the laser head runs very cool requiring the fan to be run less frequently and hence fewer contaminants are pulled into the printer yielding higher reliability. However, the e series isn't that great for your high volume (20-30K/month). The t series (ex. t654) is much better suited for your type of volume but it doesn't have the same laser print head as the e series. It is very study and reliable though. Having said that, both the e series and the t series are previous generation products. The MS series (ex. ms810) was introduced late last year and replaces the t series. It may have the print head design of the e series but I will have to check on that. This would give you the best of both worlds. As someone mentioned above a service contract is a necessity here. If this is a mission critical application, you may want to have redundancy. Also, for the lowest running cost, go ahead and buy the highest yield cartridge, it costs more up front but the cost per page is much lower.